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Take The Review, Please--At Dartmouth, not everyone is so fond of James O. Freedman '57, the college president who is also a top contender for Harvard's presidency. Just ask the folks at The Dartmouth Review, the school's notorious right-wing magazine and troublemaker. Review members, who have clashed with Freedman many times in recent years, say they are particularly excited at the prospect of Freedman's departure. "Please take him," said Ben Shim, the Review's president...
Julian Critchey, a Tory M.P., is fond of telling about the night he dined with fellow classmate Michael Heseltine at Oxford in 1952. Scribbling on the back of an envelope, Heseltine listed his ambitions for the second half of the 20th century. Under the 1990s he wrote...
...London Times devoted almost two complete issues to detailing her successes. But among the upportive editorials, the lists of achievements and the fond recollections of her colleagues were several editorials by women criticizing Thatcher for not being enough of a feminist--or anything of a feminist...
...Psychiatric Association did not recognize the disorder as a legitimate mental illness until 1980. "Multiple-personality disorder is a very, very rare condition. Because of TV talk shows, it has become the disease of the month and the plea of the year," says Dr. Darold Treffert, director of the Fond du Lac County Health Care Center, who is expected to testify for the defense. "It's a condition that's fairly easily induced in a very suggestible patient...
...Chief Executive of this nation. And for the male chauvinists in the audience, I intend as well to be the Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the Philippines." But inexperience and the chronic fractiousness of Philippine politics have frittered away her advantages. Today many Filipinos, while still fond of Aquino, would welcome a coup that would replace her dithering administration with a strong, perhaps even authoritarian, regime...